Four states that aren’t members: China, India, Russia, and the US. Four states with the largest carbon emissions? China, India, Russia, and the US - on 2020 figures (0), these four states account for more than half of the world’s carbon emissions.
(0): https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
- nationals of State parties committing a crime anywhere (which would exclude Americans)
- perpetrators committing a part of the crime on the territory of a State party (which includes e.g. Americans in Afghanistan, Myanmar soldiers deporting Rohingya to Bangladesh).
Thus, American CEOs not cleaning up an Oil spill in Canadian waters could be investigated and, if taken into custody, tried.
Eg if someone's actions or gross negligence causes, say, a big oil spill and the ICC wants to try them, won't that pretty much remove that person's ability to travel to any country that recognizes the ICC? Assuming they'd primarily target businesspeople (eg BP CEO etc), wouldn't act as a pretty decent deterrent?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
The defendant has the right, but not the obligation to be present. If they're informed of the trial but don't show up or send a representative, the trial can go ahead anyway.
It would be difficult to try minor crimes (like traffic court) if not turning up to court meant you couldn't be punished.
According to the wikipedia article, it's not as simple as that. It's allowed in some european states but not others. In the US it's disallowed with a variety of exceptions, none of which include "accused was too hard to apprehend".
>It would be difficult to try minor crimes (like traffic court) if not turning up to court meant you couldn't be punished.
AFAIK those are civil offenses, not criminal offenses, so you don't get many of the due process protections.